page_title: Health in Uganda
hierarchical_section_title: Health in Uganda
caption_attribution_description: Of the patients waiting at the Out-Patient Department of Apac Hospital in the Northern Region of Uganda. The majority are mothers of children under 5 years old with malaria.
context_page_description: Health in Uganda refers to the health of the population of Uganda. As of 2013, life expectancy at birth in Uganda was 58 years, which was lower than in any other country in the East African Community except Burundi. As of 2015, the probability of a child dying before reaching age five was 5.5 percent. Total health expenditure as a percentage of gross domestic product was 7.2 percent in 2014.
  In 2018, an estimated 1.4 million people in Uganda were infected with HIV, and the HIV prevalence rate in the country was 5.7 percent.
context_section_description: Health in Uganda refers to the health of the population of Uganda. As of 2013, life expectancy at birth in Uganda was 58 years, which was lower than in any other country in the East African Community except Burundi. As of 2015, the probability of a child dying before reaching age five was 5.5 percent (55 deaths for every 1000 live births). Total health expenditure as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) was 7.2 percent in 2014.
  In 2018, an estimated 1.4 million people in Uganda were infected with HIV, and the HIV prevalence rate in the country was 5.7 percent.
caption: Ugandan patients at the Out-Patient Department of Apac Hospital in northern Uganda. The majority are mothers of children under five years old with malaria.
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